Will your life change very much after the election this November? No matter whom you vote for, your mail will still get delivered; the government will still take money out of your pocket each week and give it to all the wrong people; you’ll still get caught in the same traffic jam every day; your boss will still be the same old jerk. In short, voting for president is a lose-lose situation.

But what if we got to vote for the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies? What if the head of Ford had to run for election? What if we got to vote for the president of American Airlines? What if CNN and Fox News followed a six-month-long campaign to see who would be the CEO of Exxon? What would interest rates be like if the CEO of your credit-card company had to campaign for the job? How many of you would vote to give your stockbroker $100 million salary? Wouldn’t you be tempted to vote for the guy who said he’d do the same job for $5 million? Until the Drudge Report reveals that he worked his way through college as a male escort, of course.

Is one CEO really worth that much more than another? Didn’t all investment bankers fall for the same mortgage scam? It seems they all pretty much think alike. Why should one get paid more than another? Shouldn’t they be paying us for that mess?